Conferences & Events

Are you attending the Chief Data Officer Summit in San Francisco this year? Our partners at IE know how to put together a fantastic event—but if you haven’t attended one before, here’s the breakdown on what you can expect.

Chief Data Officer Summit: May 22-23, San Francisco, 2014Data Strategy InnovationThe Chief Data Officer summit brings together top data leaders for 2 days of networking and interactive learning, with this year’s topics including Fostering an Enterprise Data Mindset, Building a Data Driven Culture, Mining Brilliance From Your Data, and others.

Why should you attend?

20+ industry expert keynote presentations

150 big data & analytics professionals attending

Interactive workshops with industry leaders

Over 10 hours of networking opportunities included

Access to online presentations on-demand post-summit

25+ case studies presented from leading organizations

Let us know in the comments if you plan on attending this year—and if you’re interested, there’s still time to register.

Are you planning on attending theGlobal Big Data Conference in Dallas? We hope you are. Two of our executive chimps, Flip Kromer and Eddie Satterly, will take the stage at the Global Big Data Conference’s Big Data Bootcamp next week to present on Storm and other big data tools. This conference, targeted to both technical and non-technical people who want to understand the emerging world of big data, takes place from May 9-11 — and registration is still open.

Selecting the Right Big Data Tool for the Right Job, and Making It Work for YouEddie Satterly | Day 1 – Friday May 9, 2014 | 5-6PM
Join our CTO, Eddie Satterly, as he speaks on the various types of big data solutions—from open-source to commercial solutions—and the specific selection criteria and profiles of each. As in all technology areas, each solution has its own sweet spots and challenges either in CAP theorem, ACID compliance, performance or scalability. This class will provide an overview of the technical tradeoffs for the list of solutions in technical terminology. Once the technical tradeoffs are reviewed, Eddie will review the cost and value of open-source solutions versus commercial software, and the trade-offs that folks must take to choose one over the other. The next phase will go into great detail on use cases for specific solutions based on real-world experience.See more details HERE.

Deathmarch Through the Internals of Storm + TridentFlip Kromer | Day 2 – Saturday May 10, 2014 | 5-6PM
Join our co-founder, Flip Kromer, as he deep-dives into Storm+Trident, the incredibly exciting open-source framework for streaming analytics. Storm enables scalable high-throughput processing by programs in your language of choice, on distributed networks of commodity servers. Trident extends Storm to allow exactly-once processing, enabling large-scale aggregations and advanced analytics in real-time. You’ll leave knowing enough about the Storm+Trident internals to be able to reason about your programs’ performance and confidently bring it to production.See more details HERE.

Global Big Data Conference is offering a 3 day extensive bootcamp on Big Data. This is a fast paced, vendor agnostic, technical overview of the Big Data landscape. No prior knowledge of databases or programming is assumed. Big Data Bootcamp is targeted towards both technical and non-technical people who want to understand the emerging world of Big Data, with a specific focus on Hadoop, NoSQL & Machine Learning. Attendees will experience real Hadoop clusters and the latest Hadoop distributions.

Another year, another great Strata! Team Infochimps is back in Austin, Texas, but hopefully you stopped by and grabbed a t-shirt at our booth before you left. We saw a few familiar faces and made a lot of new friends — but in case you weren’t at Strata, here’s what you may have missed…

We got a lot of questions about our workshop, where you can meet with our experienced data scientists to learn key Big Data concepts and best practices. We’re offering personalized recommendations for each workshopper and sharing the secrets of success we’ve seen from other businesses. If you missed us at the booth or haven’t heard about it yet, you canlearn more and request a workshop here too.

Many of you asked about our second annual “CIOs & Big Data: What Your IT Team Wants You to Know” report. Last year’s report showed some interesting takeaways — that 55 percent of Big Data projects aren’t completed, with 58 percent citing “inaccurate scope” as the reason for failure. We launched the questionnaire again this year and would love to hear your thoughts on what you want your CIO to know about Big Data. It only takes 10 minutes, and you can win cool prizes like an Amazon gift card.

Overall we had a blast at this year’s Strata Santa Clara! We hope you had a great time at Strata too, and we can’t wait to see you at the next one in New York. Until then, I’ll leave you with another awesome photo from our mixer featuring a couple of our chimps, Tim Gasper and Cameron Peek. Oh and if you can think of a good caption, I’m all ears.

The O’Reilly Strata Conference always delivers. They bring together the brightest minds in data science and Big Data: decision makers using data to drive business strategy, as well as practitioners who collect, analyze, and manipulate it. Join Infochimps as we mingle with over 150 of the leading data experts, network with our peers, and hear about the latest (and emerging) data tools, technologies, and best practices.

Infochimps will be exhibiting at Booth # 740 so be sure to stop by and grab our famous Infochimps t-shirt, chat with exhibiting team members, or set up a 1:1 meeting, we’d love to chat!

Not registered?Register today and save 25% with discount code: INCH1 on top of the early price special ending January 9th. Strata sells out every conference, so register today!

The technology world is rapidly changing. No longer is it reasonable for companies to wait 2 years to see value from important data and insight initiatives. To successfully compete in today’s markets, insights must be available in real-time. A new approach must be utilized to allow agile, iterative development to have successful insights in as soon as 30 days.

Register for this live webcast and join Infochimps Director of Product, Tim Gasper, as he discusses how Infochimps tackles business problems for customers by deploying a comprehensive Big Data infrastructure in days; sometimes in just hours. Join as Tim unlocks how Infochimps is now taking that same aggressive approach to deliver faster time to value by helping customers develop analytic applications with impeccable speed. During this webinar, we will discuss:

How agile Big Data application development differs from traditional development approaches

Real life case studies of business problems that have benefited from our agile approach

A technology deep dive into a customer example

This webinar will be recorded, and emailed after the event to all who register.

Who Should Attend?
This webcast is ideal for Enterprise Executives, Line of Business Executives, Technology Executives, Enterprise Architects, IT Project Managers, Application Developers and IT Professionals with expected or current Big Data projects at any stage.

Did you know Infochimps Cloud delivers Big Data systems with unprecedented speed, simplicity, scale and flexibility to enterprise companies? If you came to Strata Hadoop Conference in New York last week, hopefully you stopped by our booth and walked away with this message – or a tshirt at the very least.

If you didn’t make it out to #StrataConf, here are a few things you may have missed:

Join the troop! Our exciting start up environment as part of CSC’s Big Data and Analytics group is rapidly growing. We’re seeking top talent who loves solving the world’s hardest big data problems, flexible hours, and competitive benefits. Join our team of gentle geniuses in our belief that we can change the world through data driven decisions.

Early next week, located in New York, NY from Oct. 28-30, Infochimps will be going big at Strata + Hadoop World, along side thousands of the best minds in data gathering to learn, connect, share knowledge, and explore.

Strata + Hadoop World is one of the largest gatherings of the Apache Hadoop community in the world, with emphasis on hands-on and business sessions on the Hadoop ecosystem. If you want to tap into the opportunities brought by Big Data, data science, and pervasive computing, you’ll want to be there.

Can Big Data Save Them? Data and analytics is a means to an end. Jim highlights a new revolution of analytic applications with some touching examples in the healthcare industry with cancer research and medication therapy management.

It’s that time of year again…Big Data events season. After hacking away at our events calendar, we decided to make an appearance at the following events:

Data Curiosity RoundTable

When: September 25, 2013

Where: Austin, Texas

What: This is an open forum with the goal of sharing and trading ideas as we all “noodle” through the byproduct of intensive Big Data harnessing

Who: Presented by Dell, and Infochimps Sales Engineer Morgan Goeller will be attending this event

Why: A roundtable discussion with free pizza

.conf2013

When: September 30 – October 3, 2013

Where: Las Vegas, NV

What: The 4th Annual Splunk Worldwide Users’ Conference

Who: Presented by Splunk, and Infochimps CEO Jim Kaskade will contribute to the CxO Big Data panel on Tuesday, October 1

Why: Deepen your knowledge of Splunk, learn best practices, check out new solutions, see how others apply Splunk technology to real-world projects, and become more involved in the Splunk community

GigaOM Mobilize 2013

When: October 16 – 17, 2013

Where: San Francisco, CA

What: A 2-day conference to examine what opportunities are created by new mobile technologies and business models

Who: Presented by GigaOM

Why: This conference helps attendees make sense of where developments are headed and how they’ll affect everything from applications to infrastructure choices

The Big Data Conference

When: October 22 – 23, 2013

Where: Chicago, IL

What: A 2-day conference of comprehensive content for every IT, marketing or digital professional seeking to capitalize on the boom in data volume, variety and velocity

Who: Presented by UBM

Why: This conference fills a gap in the US market for businesses looking to capitalize on the Big Data opportunity and look for efficient solutions to manage the ever growing amount of structured and unstructured data

…and last but not least…our biggest conference of the year: Strata Conference + Hadoop World

When: October 28 – 30, 2013

Where: New York, NY

What: 3 days of inspiring keynotes and intensely practical, information-rich sessions exploring the latest advances, case studies, and best practices

Who: Co-presented by O’Reilly and Cloudera, and Infochimps CEO http://www.twitter.com/jimkaskade will be keynoting Wed, Oct. 30 at 9:50am EDT in the Grand Ballroom

Why: Strata + Hadoop World is where Big Data’s most influential decision makers, architects, developers, and analysts gather to shape the future of their businesses and technologies

If you’re going to any of the above events and want to set up a meeting with a chimp to talk about Big Data, we’d love to chat.

Located in New York, NY from Oct. 28-30, Infochimps will be going big at Strata + Hadoop World, along side thousands of the best minds in data gathering to learn, connect, share knowledge, and explore.

Easily the biggest show of the year for us, we are excited to announce that Infochimps CEO Jim Kaskade will be keynoting Wed, Oct. 30at 9:50am EDT in the Grand Ballroom.

Jim’s not the only face from Infochimps going to the show; we’ll be exhibiting with a packed booth (Booth #38) full of eager chimps ready to talk about Big Data. Key exhibiting team members include our VP of Sales Burke Kaltenberger, Director of Marketing Amanda McGuckin Hager, Director of Product Tim Gasper, Director of Sales Strategy and Operations Ryan Miller, and Demand Gen Manager Caroline Lim. If you’re going to Strata + Hadoop World and would like to set up a meeting with a chimp, we’d love to chat.

Not registered?Register today, save 20% with discount code: INCHP, and be sure to stop by Booth#38 to chat with us about Big Data.